Introducing GenUrb

This introductory chapter introduces the goal of the book, which is to provide students and early-career scholars with an engaging and rigorous open access resource on conducting feminist urban research. Through the experiences of the transnational feminist urban research project, Urbanisation, gender, and the global South: a transformative knowledge network (GenUrb), the chapter aims to enrich your understanding of what a feminist approach to urban research involves in the context of the global urban South. The chapter outlines how a global network of feminist urban researchers evolved and introduces the cities in which the research was conducted: Cochabamba, Bolivia; Delhi, India; Georgetown, Guyana; Ibadan, Nigeria; Ramallah, Palestine; and Shanghai, China. It then introduces those engaged in the GenUrb partnership, based in the research cities and at the City Institute at York University in Toronto, Canada. The chapter concludes with an outline of the six sections of the book: the building blocks of feminist decolonial urban research, the context of 21st-century urban feminist research and policy, feminist research standards, feminist methodologies and research methods, feminist data analysis, and feminist approaches to knowledge mobilisation.